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September 2024 Main Meeting

This month, Alex discussing the new Pixel 9 series phones, and the iPhone 16 range. He also interviewed Erik Kaiser, the designer and manufacturer of, 'Crush the Memory', recorder/transcriber.

August 2024 Main Meeting

During this month’s meeting, Steve demonstrated his new digital watch, Alex presented a number of advanced applications, and Australia celebrated our Olympic contestant’s remarkable achievements and the flood of Gold.

July 2024 Main Meeting

During this month’s Main meeting, Alex discussed many of the latest advances from Apple, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, plus his recent video with Copilot presenter.

June 2024 Main Meeting

Presentations included during our June Main meeting, began by showing two of Alex’s selected videos, of the powerful AMD Ryzan 9950 chip. Then Alex joined us from Adelaide, to present an AI head transplant machine, Apple’s new releases for 2024, plus ChatGPT 40, and a great deal more.

May 2024 Main Meeting

With Alex actually flying home to Canberra, during this meeting, he had thoughtfully prepared a video presentation in advance. His topics included, the latest, Samsung 85 inch QN 900D Smart TV, iPad Air, Claude AI and Google AI, and more. Click the link below to view it now.

This meeting included the AGM reports from 2023, and the election of committee members for 2024:

Stephen South, Ron Ferguson, Clare Perry, Alex Zarahov-Reutt and Anthony Robison.
We wish them all well.

April 2024 Main Meeting

With Alex having just returned from the Lenovo exhibition in Bangkok, he had plenty of items to present, and discuss. This included, Lenovo’s agreement with Anaconda® Inc., the leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and data science platform, to empower Lenovo’s trusted ThinkStation™ and ThinkPad™ workstation products.

Alex also discussed and showed short videos on topics, including, Surface Pro 10 and Surface 6, Copilot AI, Intel Core processors, LG OLED TVs, Samsung products and much more.

March 2024 Main Meeting

As usual, this meeting covered a wide range of topics, and like always, Alex skilfully handled discussions including: security cameras, Robotic lawnmowers and various AI topics, including AI images, as seen here.

AI came up a lot, during discussions, and it seems we're in for some amazing things soon. One was the OpenAI Sora video producer, where Alex showed totally-made-up drone footage following a vehicle racing along a winding dusty road somewhere, looking quite authentic with dust churning up from the wheels.

Alex also asked CoPilot to help with refreshing the Sydney PC User Group and it went into great detail about things we could do. All together, another very successful meeting.

February 2024 Main Meeting

Our first Main Meeting for the New Year was conducted via Zoom only, as in a recent survey, this format was shown to be more convenient for most members.

As always, Alex was on hand to deliver another excellent and interesting presentation, the first for 2024.
Alex began by restating some of the online swindles highlighted by the National Anti-Scam Centre’s, ‘Scams Awareness Week’, that ran from 27 November to 1 December 2023. He warned that these criminals are continually creating new ways to scam even the most cautious people.

Then, having just returned from attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Alex discussed some of the outstanding exhibits on show, including the latest AI advances, and showed some videos on the latest technology.

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